Developmental temperature, body size and male mating success in fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Title:

Developmental temperature, body size and male mating success in fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Creator:

Pavkovic-Lučic, Sofija and Kekic, Vladimir

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:d920b41d-1d30-416e-af4f-8304237b6601
uuid:d920b41d-1d30-416e-af4f-8304237b6601

Subject:

Zoologie, zoologie, entomologie, Drosophilidae, developmental temperature, body size, mating success, Drosophila melanogaster, 2, and 59

Type:

article, články, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Body size is one of the most investigated traits in studies of sexual selection in fruit flies of the genus Drosophila. In D. melanogaster, size has often been correlated with male mating success, i.e. larger males were more successful in achieving copulations both in laboratory and field conditions. In the present paper, we investigated if male body size is a sexually selected trait in competitive conditions, when full-sibs that developed at two different temperatures (18 and 25°C) competed for females. Males developed at a lower temperature were significantly larger than those reared at a higher temperature, but they were not more successful in mating. We conclude that when body size is significantly induced by temperature variability, it is not correlated with male mating success., Sofija Pavkovic-Lučic, Vladimir Kekic., and Obsahuje seznam literatury

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2013 Volume:110 | Number:1

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